? Location: Remote Anywhere in Canada / Hybrid (Toronto, Vancouver)

? Terms: FT Permanent (Canada) ? Compensation: $160k – $190k CAD + Equity About Us Softdrive is a startup on a mission to make powerful compute accessible to every enterprise, without the complexity or cost that has defined the VDI industry for decades. We build and stream high-performance virtual desktops to any device, across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, so teams can stay productive from anywhere without being constrained by their hardware. Our performance is 5x faster and our setup time is 80% shorter than the legacy industry players.

We deliver the lowest total cost of ownership in the market, handle GPU- and CPU-intensive workloads at scale, and eliminate the burden of physical hardware management. We’re proud to build in partnership with Oracle, NVIDIA, and Autodesk.

Joining

Softdrive means working on hard infrastructure problems that actually matter, at a company early enough that your work shapes the product, the team, and the culture. We move rapid, operate with high ownership, and are building something the industry's biggest players haven't been able to crack.

About the Role As a Staff Engineer for our Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps team, you'll own the architecture, reliability, and scalability of Softdrive's core virtualization platform. This is a hands-on technical role: you'll be deep in the code and config, setting technical direction for the platform, and raising the engineering bar through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on problem-solving. You'll work on cutting-edge infrastructure challenges including app virtualization, dynamic auto-scaling, hybrid storage, and SASE networking, building technology that defines the future of VDI.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain Softdrive's KVM/oVirt virtualization environment on top of bare metal and public cloud infrastructure

Own infrastructure reliability, uptime, and site reliability engineering practices





Provide day-to-day technical coordination for a distributed, cross-timezone infrastructure team, including workload sequencing and delivery cadence, in the absence of a dedicated engineering manager

Drive automation across image management and infrastructure provisioning

Own networking configuration including SASE, VPN, VLANs, subnets, and firewall management

Participate in on-call rotation as the senior escalation point for production incidents, and establish on-call processes and runbooks for the broader team

Establish and enforce infrastructure best practices, documentation standards, and incident response processes

Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate roadmap requirements into infrastructure decisions

Serve as the technical escalation point for your team and a thought partner to leadership on infrastructure strategy About You Requirements & Qualifications

10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or DevOps engineering

Deep, hands-on experience with hypervisors — KVM strongly preferred

Proficiency with oVirt, or vCenter and server management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet or Chef

Strong networking fundamentals: VLANs, subnets, firewalls, NIC virtualization and cloud networking (dynamic routing gateways, peering connections, etc)

Experience with cloud orchestration and Infrastructure-as-Code tools

Proficiency with container technologies at scale: Kubernetes, Docker

Solid understanding of OS fundamentals, incl. memory, storage, and compute

Comfortable owning production environments and driving SRE practices

Strong communication skills, ability to operate effectively across timezones and translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders Nice-to-Have

Experience working at an early-stage startup

Experience mentoring a distributed/remote team

Familiarity with VDI or Desktop-as-a-Service platforms

Working knowledge of GPU virtualization and hardware performance optimization

Experience with cloud management platforms such as OpenStack

📌 Staff Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps (Canada)
🏢 Softdrive
📍 Canada